Comprehending action preconditions and effects is an essential step in modeling the dynamics of the world. In this paper, we express the semantics of precondition relations extrac...
S. R. K. Branavan, Nate Kushman, Tao Lei, Regina B...
Sensitivity Analysis (SA) is a novel compiler technique that complements, and integrates with, static automatic parallelization analysis for the cases when relevant program behavi...
Silvius Rus, Maikel Pennings, Lawrence Rauchwerger
The use of dynamic access control policies for threat response adapts local response decisions to high level system constraints. However, security policies are often carefully tigh...
We describe a combination of runtime information and static analysis for checking properties of complex and configurable systems. The basic idea of our approach is to 1) let the p...
The primary goal of exception mechanisms is to help ensure that when an operation fails, code that depends on the operation's successful completion is not executed (a property...